#efficient quoting

[palatinewolfsblog]

"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." W.E.B. Du Bois.

[saint-cosmos]

something about gaz adopting a hybrid and it just has to be poodle!reader.

something about gaz being lonely when he's off base, in his bachelor pad by himself, no birds in sight, deciding to adopt himself a pet to keep him company on the quiet days. there's a fine line he's toeing during his search. he wants a breed that likes to play, but doesn't dictate his life with their need for exercise and attention. a low maintenance breed.

and all of this research, naturally, flies right out the door when he's looking on the website of the shelter he's working with, and sees poodle!reader's sweet face on the second page. the hopeful expression on your face, paired with the surrender date in your info that tells him how terribly long you've been up for adoption, has his mind made up, even subconsciously. even if he did keep looking and adopt another hybrid, he knew that he'd never get your face out of his mind.

something about owner!gaz throwing the tennis ball a little too far at the park one day, and it lands in the pond, too far for you to reach. gaz expects you to pause at the side of the pond and whimper in a way that's almost painful, before you look at him to retrieve your toy. he's prepared - albeit not without heartache - to tell you that he can't reach it, either.

owner!gaz who is not expecting you to run full tilt and launch yourself into the chilly water, your precious curls dripping water as you turn to him and hold the ball up with a triumphant smile on your face.

[electric-plants]

cyno: i have to confess a crime i committed against you

alhaitham: okay…..

cyno: i used to pay panah to measure the stacks of paperwork you would get through because i thought your efficiency was hot

alhaitham: …..that’s not a crime

cyno: not officially, but it was wrong of me to go behind your back that way

alhaitham: you break into our house anytime you want to visit instead of knocking i’m hardly surprised or concerned over this

[dabiconcordia]

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.” ― Aesop

[kalavathiraj]

It’s better to sweat in the lab of work rather than wasting precious minutes in the high castle of procrastination. -starting ‘somewhere’

Life Lessons, QUOTUS

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

maggot omens again...

...my fans are normal i promise

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

The only good news concerning our recent engagement was the return of “Bull” Randleman the next morning. Randleman had been reported as missing in action. Wounded and cut off from the rest of Easy Company, he took refuge in a vacant barn and waited until nightfall. Before long, a German soldier entered the barn to scout it out. “Bull” bayoneted him and concealed the body with hay. Then he covered himself and hid until the following morning when he was rescued by soldiers from A and D Companies. Randleman was typical of the NCOs in Easy Company, and the fact that he had stood on his own two feet, behind enemy lines, and had not lost his composure said a lot about the company’s ability to function in combat. Private Tony Garcia, one of his squad members, described Randleman as “big and tough: tough not only against the Germans, but also in a milder way with his squad.” “Bull” talked slowly, but he had a commanding presence. If you needed to get the company up in the morning, you did not need a bugle. You just put Randleman in the middle of a field and told him to have everybody fall out. That was all you needed. No matter what kind of job you gave him, he got it done. He was extremely dependable. And the men loved him.

~ Dick Winters

[tf2incorrectquotes]

RED!Pyro: *sneezes*

BLU!Sniper: *sniping from the roof* Bless you.

RED!Pyro: *muffled* God?

[bison2winquote]

Sistan, Yatagarasu: Enter the Eastward (Yatagarasu Dev Team)

[charlotte-family-apologist]

Kenshi: You didn’t have to do that.

Suchin, wiping blood off her sword: Okay? It’s too late to take it back. What do you want me to do?

Kenshi: Nothing, I like you.

[realbeefman]

the choice, intentional or not, to twist the maraclea legend in like minds to make a lady of maraclea become the lady maraclea is so fascinating to me. been thinking a lot about kristeva’s concept of abjection as the place where meaning collapses in on itself, the way a supernova implodes into a black hole. it contributes to this larger use of gestalt not as a way of understanding the events that happen in the film but rather as this constant and continual process of deconstructing/stripping all meaning. maraclea is taken and bastardized to pure signifier without sign. a meaning utterly detached from the context which formed it. “that thing that no longer matches and therefore no longer signifies anything”

[electric-plants]

cyno: that’s alhaitham over there, i feel very normally towards him

cyrus: …o-kay? he seems very…put together i suppose

cyno: great so you agree he’d make a good match for me and approve of me marrying him

cyrus: what—

cyno: i’ll go propose right now, thank you for your blessing

cyrus: you’re….welcome??

[haysaprocky]

my boss is all about maximizing chatgpt usage and i’m like “ok buttttt what if it makes stuff up 🤨” and he’s like “nah im not worried about that” and im like “ok!”

so i’m trying it out today and why is this bitch just LYINGGGG to me lmfao!!! like my third eye saw this coming ✋🏼

[duckapus]

Oh hey it's been a while

Diana: The real secret to immortality? Not dying. You want to be immortal? Okay, easy. Just don't die. That's it. Refuse to die. There you Go.

Bob: "But how?" you may ask. Easy. Just don't do it. Refuse to. Say no thanks.

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Tulip: The hardest thing about realizing you're bi is that no one tells you what to do with the beam attack you have now. Like how do I even use this thing?

Timmy: With a diffusion lens you can cook with it.

Tulip: See where was this advice when I came out?

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Laharl: Literally why can't I have short hair and long hair at the same time?

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Sally: On all levels except physical I am heart shaped.

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Franky: This might be controversial but if I came across a beaker of glowing green liquid I would give it a little taste.

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Saiko: Bath tubs that can't submerge an entire adult body should be illegal.

Tari: Okay I know what you meant but you sound a bit like a murderer.

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Mario, balancing precariously on a power line and messing with the boxes at the top of a telephone pole: Your cable company doesn't want you to know this trick.

Karen: You know what? I don't want to know that trick either.

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Bob: If I die my funeral's gonna be the biggest fucken party and you're all invited.

Boopkins: If?

Clench: Great, the only party I've ever been invited to and he might not even die.

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Mario: After filling the washing machine with hot dogs, I momentarily hesitate before turning the knob to "Delicates."

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Mr. Puzzles: "Obviously, we have a lot of problems we need to address," I say, referring to one specific problem, which I created, alone.

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Valiant: Undefeated in wizard duels thanks to my devastating countermagic where I close the distance and punch them in the chest 14 times while they try to read a paragraph from a book the size of a briefcase. This sorcery shit is easy as hell.

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Effi: Hey, don't cry. Endless possible futures spanning out in front of you like an infinite spiderweb, okay?

Effi: Just realized this is actually quite horrifying and not a comforting thought at all. Sorry.

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SMG3: A customer just came in and ordered a flat white with six shots in it. For clarity that's like. A whole cup of espresso with maybe an inch of milk sitting on top. This mf is trying to meet the Hat Man.

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Irene: I'm a proud owner of an iq of 5 (and a half!)

Jayin, programming the Meme Suppression Bullets: Not for long!

Irene: Please it's all I have

[kaiserouo]

Idk how i can get 4 art post out in one night but i guess when impending doom approaches (tomorrows meeting) i can have peak efficiency in literally anything else

[edible-words]

Cooking helped Homo erectus extract energy from plants and meat more efficiently, and it widened the range of food sources that Homo erectus was able to consume. Heat denatures protein, gelatinizes starch, and (unless you overdo it) softens food.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper